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Assistive web browsing with touch interfaces

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Abstract

This demonstration will propose a touch-based directional navigation technique, on touch interface (e.g., iPhone, Macbook) for people with visual disabilities especially blind individuals. Such interfaces coupled with TTS (text-to-speech) systems open up intriguing possibilities for browsing and skimming web content with ease and speed. Apple's seminal VoiceOver system for iOS is an exemplar of bringing touch-based web navigation to blind people. There are two major shortcomings: "fat finger" and "finger- fatigue" problems, which have been addressed in this paper with two proposed approaches. A preliminary user evaluation of the system incorporating these ideas suggests that they can be effective in practice.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationASSETS'10 - Proceedings of the 12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
Pages235-236
Number of pages2
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010
Event12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, ASSETS'10 - Orlando, FL, United States
Duration: Oct 25 2010Oct 27 2010

Publication series

NameASSETS'10 - Proceedings of the 12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

Conference

Conference12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, ASSETS'10
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityOrlando, FL
Period10/25/1010/27/10

Keywords

  • Granularity
  • Navigation
  • Touch interface
  • Web accessibility

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